[WikiEN-l] Fwd: Why we need a good WYSIWYG editor

[David Gerard]

[to list as well, sorry Shlomi!]


2010/1/4 Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il>:

> I personally detest all WYSIWYG web-based editors. They are slow and clunky
> and produce broken markup, and just get in the way. I'm also not fond of
> WYSIWYG word processors and prefer using XHTML or DocBook/XML or other non-
> WYSIWYG markup languages. If you are going to enable such a feature, please
> make it optional.


Oh, absolutely. It's just that you and I are maybe 10% of the possible
editor pool. We have to not put up a gigantic barrier to the other
90%.


- d.